Improvement in children s carriages



I A. ROPES;

I CHILDREN-TS CARRI'A'GES.

I P atfen ted Nov. 30', 1 875.

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ARTHUR ROPES, on MONTPEL-IER, VERMONT.

IMPROVEMENT IN CHILDRENS CARRIAGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 170,493, dated November30, 1875 application filed March 25, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR Rows, of Montpelier, in the county ofWashington and State of Vermont, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Childrens Carriages. The following is a descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which aremade part of this specificarod 0 at its center by means of a ball-and.

socket joint, which admits of free motion in any direction, vertical orhorizontal. If the child is exposed to the sun or wind in front, or ifthe annoyance comes from the right, or if, by turning a street-corner,the left is the point of exposure, the canopy is quickly and easilyshifted in that direction. It can be turned to any point of the compass,tipped to any angle less than forty-five degrees, and held in positionby a milled thumb-screw, a. The rod G can be swung to the right or left,so as to place the canopy at one side of the center of the carriage, themore effectually to shield the child from the horizontal rays of the sunearly or late in the day. The canopy can be placed at any height abovethe seat, as occasion may require. The upright rod passes through asocket firmly attached to the back of the carriage-seat, and the top isheld up by a milled thumb-screw, grooves being turned in the rod, intowhich the thumb-screw fits, to prevent the canopy from descendingaccidentally on the head of the rider. The top can be lowered over thechild if lying down, and tipped to the front, right,

or left, or to any quarter, to shield it from the sun or wind. By jointI) in the rod 0 the canopy is easily thrown back to facilitate theplacing of the child in the carriage. If desired, the top may be readilytaken off by loosening the thumb screw in the socket, thus making anelegant open barouche. The box B rests upon four springs, H H H H. Therear springs are attached to axle E in a novel manner, the springspassing through a projection of the chair before reaching the axle, asshown. The reach is attached to the rear axle in the same manner as thespring, it first passing through an extension of the chair on its way tothe axle, where the reach is fastened to the axle by means of a boltpassing through spring H, axle E, chair, and reach. By this mode ofconstruction the spring is prevented from being broken by the rebound ingoing over rough ground. The spring is a strengthened, and the axle isprevented from turning over backward, as is its tendency when the chairis not used. I represents the rocker, which is provided with twoflanges, projecting downward far enough to receive axle D, which is heldbetween the flanges by apin, which passes horizontally through theflanges and axle D, which permits the axle D to oscillate andaccommodate itself to rough ground. On the back side of the rear flangeare two hollow round projections, which receive and hold the front endof the reaches. By this means of attachment of the reaches the rigidparallelism of the axles, which is so necessary in the construction ofcarriages of this kind, is easily obtained, and also the freeoscillation of the front axle.

I claim as my invention- A carriage with adjustable top A, attached tothe end of a jointed rod, 0, by means of a ball-and-socket joint,substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

ARTHUR ROPES.

Witnesses:

THonLAs J. DEAVITT, CHARLES WELLs.

